Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A block or form shaped like a human foot and used in making or repairing shoes.
- transitive verb To mold or shape on a last.
- intransitive verb To continue in time; go on.
- intransitive verb To continue; survive.
- intransitive verb To remain in good or usable condition.
- intransitive verb To continue in force or practice.
- intransitive verb To remain in adequate supply.
- intransitive verb To keep adequately supplied.
- intransitive verb To persist or endure for the entire length of; survive.
- adjective Being, coming, or placed after all others; final.
- adjective Being the only one left.
- adjective Just past; most recent.
- adjective Most up-to-date; newest.
- adjective Highest in extent or degree; utmost.
- adjective Most valid, authoritative, or conclusive.
- adjective Least likely or expected.
- adjective The least desirable or suitable.
- adjective Being the latest possible.
- adjective Lowest in rank or importance.
- adjective Used as an intensive.
- adjective Of or relating to a terminal period or stage, as of life.
- adjective Administered just before death.
- adverb After all others in chronology or sequence.
- adverb Most recently.
- adverb At the end; finally.
- noun One that is at the end or last.
- noun The end.
- noun The final mention or appearance.
- idiom (at last) After a considerable length of time; finally.
- idiom (at long last) After a lengthy or troublesome wait or delay.
- noun A unit of volume or weight varying for different commodities and in different districts, equal to about 80 bushels, 640 gallons, or 2 tons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wooden pattern or model of the human foot, on which shoes are formed.
- At the end of the series; after all others.
- In conclusion; finally; lastly.
- For the last time; on the last occasion before the present time.
- Lately.
- To form on or by a last; fit to a last, as the materials for a boot or shoe.
- To find fault with; blame.
- noun Power of holding out; endurance; stamina.
- noun In law, same as
last-court . - noun Fault.
- noun A burden; a load; a cargo.
- noun A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value; hence, a particular weight or measure, varying in amount in different localities and for different commodities.
- noun A piece cut from a fish and used as bait. In pollack-fishing, for example, such a piece is cut from the under or bright part of the pollack.
- To follow out; carry out; perform; do.
- To extend; reach.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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TWO major thoroughfares because the highway twists like vines as lanes spin up or down around each other - and the roads bend and warp until at last - at *last* - the road bears its own name on a sign.
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TWO major thoroughfares because the highway twists like vines as lanes spin up or down around each other - and the roads bend and warp until at last - at *last* - the road bears its own name on a sign.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Your mind begins to spin, as the last of your brain's oxygen is used up, conjuring whatever images it can come up with your past, the future you're never going to see, your dreams, your nightmares until finally, at long last
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001
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In dates of the last and present century, the expression of the _last two figures_ is sufficient.
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But then it is _all_ they can do -- it is the last card and the _last_ man, and if we make one stupendous effort, we must inevitably crush it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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And then, when the hour _has_ come at last, have you been able to take your departure without some half-reproachful feeling akin to melancholy -- without some slight shade of regret to think that much as you have hated it, you look upon it all now for the _last_ time?
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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Evelyn at a concert, for which I had tickets, but I was too tired to go; this morning we went to hear Dr.P. Brooks, the great preacher who everyone was raving about last spring in London, (or was it _last_ year?) his church is like a great _temple_, or public hall, and cost [pound symbol] 180,000.
The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters Clara Rayleigh
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I found a feeling of sincere companionship ... a companionship that without ostentation and as a matter of course, shared the last cent the last meal ... when every cent _was_ the last cent, every meal the _last_ meal ... the rest depending on luck and
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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Seward pleaded for delay, fearing that on account of the depression of the public mind the proclamation might be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help, the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia in a last shriek on the retreat.
Chapter IV 1917
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The love of it clung to him to the last moments of his life; but tho he felt that last infirmity of noble minds, never did there breathe a human being who had a more lofty disdain for the shallow and treacherous popularity which is to be courted by subserviency, and purchased at the expense of principle and duty.
On Catholic Relief 1906
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July 28, 2009
yarb commented on the word last
"He praised the pine-woods, the deep lasts of bracken, the crimson leaves that spotted the hurt-bushes, the serviceable beauty of the turnpike road."
- E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
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May 3, 2011